Our Bible Reading by Augusta W. Heald

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 17, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 25.

Our Bible Reading

By Augusta W. Heald

Mountains.

1. Mountains are a symbol of stability. "They that trust in Jehovah are as Mount Zion, which can not be moved, but abideth forever." Ps. 125: 1.

2. Mountains are a type of God's care for His people. "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so Jehovah is round about His people from this time forth and forevermore." Ps. 125: 2.

3. God delivered His holy law from Sinai's sacred mountain. "And Mount Sinai, the whole of it smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire." "And God spake all these words," the Ten Commandments. Ex. 19: 18; 20: 1.

"Thy righteousness is like the great mountains." Ps. 36:6. "Which by His strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power." Ps. 65:6.

4. Christ resorted to the lonely mountain-side for secret prayer. "And it came to pass in these days, that He went out into the mountain to pray; and He continued all night in prayer to God." Luke 6: 12.

5. Christ gave His life a sacrifice on Calvary's mountain. "And when they came unto the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left." Luke 23: 33.

6. From the Mount of Olives, Christ ascended to the Father. "And when He had said these things, as they were looking, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight." "Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet." Acts 1: 9, 12.

7. Mountains have afforded a refuge for God's people in ages past. "Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed." "Then let them that are in Judea flee unto the mountains." Gen. 19: 17; Matt. 24: 16.

8. Mountains will again be a refuge in the perils of the last days. "He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure." Isa. 33: 16.

9. The mountains will be removed in the last great day. "The mountains quake at Him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at His presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein." "And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found." Nahum 1: 5; Rev. 16: 20.

10. Yet God will have mercy upon His people. "For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but My loving-kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall My covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee." Isa. 54: 10.

11. Christ will again appear upon Mount Olivet to establish His glorious kingdom in the earth. "And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall be cleft in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south." "And Jehovah my God shall come, and all the holy ones with Thee." "And Jehovah shall be King over all the earth." Zech. 14: 4, 5, 9.

12. In that day the redeemed will stand with Christ on Mount Zion above. "And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the Mount Zion, and with Him an hundred and forty and four thousand, having His name, and the name of His Father, written on their foreheads." "These were purchased from among men, to be the first-fruits unto God and unto the Lamb." Rev. 14: 1, 4.

13. "The mountain-lines" will again appear, and stretch before us in the glorious new earth. "I will make all My mountains a way, and My highways shall be exalted." Isa. 49: 11. "Ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands." Isa. 55: 12. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, saith Jehovah." Isa. 65: 25.

AUGUSTA W. HEALD.